Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Analysis of findings Riveting events Americans were deeply affected by the terror strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11. In the first days after the attacks, the nation was engrossed in the rescue effort, the investigation, and the stories that emerged from the attacks themselves. This meant that some people […]
Wired seniors – a breed apart Senior citizens are among the least likely people in America to have Internet access. Just 15% of Americans aged 65 and older go online, compared to 51% of their closest peers, those aged 50-64, and 56% of all Americans. Almost half of Internet users were first given the opportunity […]
A new report also reveals that age 55 is the “gray gap” dividing line WASHINGTON, D.C. – Only 15% of those aged 65 and older go online, but as a group they are fervent users of the Internet who love email and often use the Web to gather important information such as material to help […]
WASHINGTON – Use of the Internet has become an increasingly important feature of the learning environment for teenagers both inside and outside the classroom. Asked about their most recent major school report, 71% of teenagers with Internet access said they relied Internet sources the most in completing the project. That compares to 24% who said […]
This dataset comprises the Pew Internet Project’s longitudinal survey in which about 40% of respondents to the March 2000 survey on email use and social connectedness were called back in March 2001 and asked the same questions.
Background There has been an aggressive national campaign to bring computers and the Internet into schools since 1996. The Telecommunications Act passed that year created the E-Rate program, which provided discounts of 20%-to-90% to schools (depending upon the number of poor children in a district) to purchase Internet access for the school or library. The […]
Background on the Pew Internet Project and its surveys of Hispanics The results presented in this report come from a year’s worth of research about how American adults use the Internet and how they feel about it. The Pew Internet & American Life Project commissioned phone survey work from Princeton Survey Research Associates that began […]